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Practical Guidk 

To the Investigation of 

Spiritualism 

HEALING AND ™ E 
OCCULT SCIENCES, 

BY 

Psof. GEO. W. Wfllif^OflD, 




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Astrological Piraetitionei? and Teaehei* of tfc 
Oceult Sciences. 



Instructions for the Development of Clairvoyance, Magnetic Hea If r 
and Occult Power Generally; also Rules for 
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CONTENTS. 



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Introduction 1 

Spiritualism (Definitions) 2 

What Spiritualism Teacnes 6 

Mediumship— What It Is 7 

How to Investigate 3 

Rules for Seances 9 

Magnetic Healing 12 

Occultism, with Rules for Occult 

Training 17 

Astrology 19 



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Zodiacal Signs, Birtk Btones,^ Astral 
Colors, and Ruling Planets r;....2i, 

Clairvoyance and Psychometry 24 

Palmistry 26 

Ten Laws of Success in Life 28 

Hypnotism 27 

Testimony of Distinguished Scientists 
to the Reality of Psychical Phe- 
nomena 29 to 32 

Also pages 2 and 3 of Cover. 



This Pamphlet should be in the hands of every Investigator of Spirirual- 
istic, Astrological Psychic, and Occult Science and Spiritual Phenomena. 

[Copyrighted, 1898, by Geo. W. Walrond.] 



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Te?tin|oiu| in F&Voi* of Jpiifii-floinmnqioii/ 
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Along with the worship of God, there existed in China, 
from the earliest historical times, the worship of other spiritual 
beings specially, and to every individual the worship of depar- 
ted ancestors. — Rev. Dr. Legge, Chinese Classics. 

Deity has no immediate intercourse with men. All com- 
munication between gods and mortals is carried on by means 
of demons, both in sleeping and waking. They are clothed 
with air, wander through heaven, hover over the stars, and 
abide on the earth. — Plato. The word "demons" means spirits. 

As to the nature of spirits and angels, this is neither un- 
searchable nor forbid; but in a great part level to the human 
mind, on account of their affinity .... the knowledge of their 
nature, power and illusions, appears from Scripture, reason and 
experience, to be no small part of spiritual wisdom. — Lord Ba- 
con. 

As for spirits, I am so far from denying their existence, 
that I could easily believe that not only whole countries, but 
particular persons, have their tutelary and guardian angels . . 
. . this serves as a hypothesis to solve many doubts whereof 
common philosophy affordeth no solution. — Sir Thomas 
Browne. 

And though we can never see them (the spirits) with our 
bodily eyes, except they assume, as they sometimes do, a bodily 
shape, yet they are always as evident to our faith as any thing 
can be to our sight. — From Bishop Beveridge's Sermons, 

Angels are immaterial and intellectual .... they have 
with us that communion which the Apostles to the Hebrews 
noteth, and in regard whereof they disdain not to profess them- 
selves our fellow servants. And from hence there springe th up 
another law which bindeth them to works of ministerial em- 
ployment. — Hooker, Eccl. Polity. 

So sure as we see men, so sure we are that holy men have 

seen angels We have had intuitive intimations of the 

death of absent friends, which no human intelligence had bid- 
den us to suspect ; who but our angels have wrought it? We 
have been preserved from mortal danger,which we could not tell 
how by our providence to have evaded; our invisible guardians 
have done it. — "The Invisible World" by Bishop Hall. 

The Scriptures are pervaded with evidence that we dwell 
among invisible but eternal varieties — personalities and sub- 
stances. — Professor L. T. Townsend. 

I believe there is a supernatural and spiritual world in 
which human spirits, both good and bad, live in a state of con- 
sciousness. I believe that any of these spirits may, according 
to the order of God, in the laws of their place of residence, have 
intercourse with this world, and become visible to mortals. — 
Dr. Adam Clarke. [See also pages 29 to 32.] 



INTRODUCTION. 



To All Students and Truth Seekers. 

THE previous issues of this "Practical Guide" having met with 
such unqualified approval, success, and quick sales, I have been 
constrained to bring out another revised edition of Five Thousand 
copies. In this 1898 issue I have rearranged the matter and have added 
eight more pages of valuable practical advice on Occultism and the meth- 
ods to develop the Clairvoyant, Psychometric, and Intuitional art of spirit- 
ual sight, touch, and immediate psychic perception of facts, persons, prin- 
ciples, events and things, past, present and future. A chapter on the 
Science of Astrology has also been added, setting forth its claims as one of 
the most reliable sciences of the age. There is every reason to know, and 
it is a knowledge to be proud of, that the Occult Sciences are being studied 
more and more. Spiritualism as a science, a philosophy, and a religion is 
an important ethical and educational factor everywhere throughout the 
world. 

Now that the shackles of priestcraft have been removed, bigotry bur- 
ied, and Christian superstition eradicated, we can, under the light of Spir- 
itual and Psychic science, read the Bible with delight and understand- 
ing. We can trace in its records the hundreds of spiritualistic and occult 
experiences, of the men and women who lived for a period of several thous- 
and years before the Christian era ; or, in other words, we have found the 
phenomena of modern Spiritualism corroborative of these old Biblical and 
New Testament stories. 

The clairaudient faculties of Abraham, the dream interpretations of 
Joseph, the occult powers of Moses and Aaron, as well as those of the 
Egyptian magicians ; the mediumistic gifts of Eli, Samuel, Elijah, Elisha 
and others ; the materialization of Samuel through the Witch of Endor, 
the levitations and spiritual experiences of Ezekiel, the astrological and 
divination attainments of Daniel, the healing and other marvels worked 
through Jesus and the apostles, the return of Moses and Elias ; and the 
physical phenomena recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, no longer appear 
mythical and doubtful, but we know these so-called miracles to be the 
outcome of the operations of a natural law, the result of the spiritual ener- 
gies of the cosmos and the human mind. 

A twenty-five years' study of the literature, a fifteen years' experimen- 
tation with the phenomena in every phase, and the development of my own 
mediumship and its almost every day exercise for many years, enable me to 
proclaim the truths of Spiritualism. Through these mediumistic gifts I have 
been completely convinced, and in like manner I have been able to convince 
thousands of others, that there is a natural law enabling mortals to com- 
mune with the loved ones on the evergreen shores of spirit life. I sincerely 
invite the sceptic and investigator to the overwhelming testimony of emi- 
nent persons in this pamphlet to the Facts and Truths of Spiritualism. 
These persons are only a few of the many thousands who have testified to 
the most glorious and transcendental of all facts that there is "Life beyond 
the grave." This pamphlet has been compiled with the view to leading 
others to investigate and solve the greatest problems of the age — "the past, 
present and future life," and "If a man die shall he live again?" 

GEO. W.WALROND, 

ASTROLOGER, AND TEACHER OF OCCULT SCIENCE. 

59th Anniversary of Modern Spiritualism, Opera House Sloek 

MARCH, 1898. DEri^ES, COliO^flDO, 

[Copyrighted, 1$$ by Geo. W. Walrond.] 



PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SPIRITUALISM, 



FRjPlCTICjQlL GrXJUDHI 

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Siitilism, Magnetic Healing M ft Occult Sciences 

WITH HINTS TO ENQUIRERS AND RULES FOR INVESTIGATION 

AND DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIUMSHIP; ALSO 

TESTIMONIALS OF EMINENT MEN. 

BY 

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SPIRITUALISM. 

Spiritualism is the Science and philosophy of Life, here 
and hereafter. It is the knowledge of the Law of Psychic Sci- 
ence and of everything pertaining to the spiritual nature of 
man, and man's unfoldment. 

As spirit is the moving force or Spiritual energy of the 
universe with its concomitant influences — Astral, Psychical, 
Physical and Spiritual — Spiritualism must embrace all that is 
known and all that ever can be known. Spiritualism grasps 
the whole domain of nature, spirit and matter. 

The philosophy of Spiritualism encourages the loftiest 
Spiritual aspirations, gives energy to the soul by presenting 
only exalted motives, prompts to highest endeavors, and incul- 
cates noble self-reliance. It seeks for the whole and complete 
cultivation and unfoldment of man in harmonious development, 
physical, moral and intellectual. 

The true Spiritualist, is one who is truly spiritual, and em- 
bodies the highest ideal of excellence in his or her life. 

Spiritualism implies two things, says the Rev. J. Page 
Hopps, of Scotland. 

1. The belief that the real solution of the problem of life 
is to be fond in a physical state of being beyond or behind the 

physical, and 

2. The belief that the psychical or spiritual beings, under 
certain conditions and in accordance with certain natural laws, 



MAGNETIC HEALING AND OCCULT SCIENCE. 3 

can and do manifest their presence on the physical or material 
plane. 

Or, to state the above in another way: "Spiritualism is the 
application and recognition of the truth that the world of 
sense is surrounded and pervaded by a world of spirit, and 
that communion never ceases between the two." 

That definition includes as Spiritualists all consistent be- 
lievers in the Bible and the elementary basis of Christianity, 
hence one cannot be a Christian and not be a Spiritualist. 

"The Bible, from Genesis to Revelations, is saturated with 
Spiritualism, and between the first fragments and the last lies 
a period of something like 4,500 years. During the whole of 
that time, if the Bible is to be believed, there was in every con- 
ceivable way communion between the unseen and seen — between 
the living and the so-called dead. It is for those who believe 
that to explain how they can believe in spirit communion dur- 
ing a period of 2,000 to 4,000 years before Christ and laugh at 
it 1,890 years after Christ. There are many inconsistencies in 
the world which we cannot explain, and this is one of them. 

"The Bible, from beginning to end, is a record of spirit ap- 
pearances, spirit voices, spirit phenomena and spirit activities. 
Almost every one of the 66 books in the Bible is a book which 
is alive with Spiritualism, and needs Spiritualism to explain it. 
Every book from Moses to Ezra, from Job to Isaiah, from 
Ezekiel to Malachi, from the Evangelists to Paul, and from 
Peter to John. They are all full of it, and Spiritualism is the 
key that will show how natural spirit communion is, and be- 
cause it can show by modern examples how the old records may 
be true." 

"I deliberately affirm that Spiritualism is the only key 
that will unlock the mysterious door of the past, present and 
future." — Rev. J. Page Hopps. 

Yes! Spiritualism not only teaches but most emphatically 
demonstrates that this life is the preparatory school to eternity 
where we are to meet our ascended loved relatives and friends, 
and where another higher order of life and things will have to 
be experienced; hence we should face our last earthly hours 
with courage and hope, for the last day on earth is but the 
birthday of eternity, the open sesame to the better land. The 
so-called death is but a step onward in the march towards the 
immortal realms. Spiritualism does what no other religion or 
philosophy does, it demonstrates the survival of the human soul 
by mediumistic communications with Spirits, the Infinity of 
inhabited worlds, Infinite progress and Universal Communion 
of beings 

Spiritualists generally accept in common the following- 
statement: 



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1. One Universal Omnipotent Natural Law or Spiritual 
Creative Energy, scientifically known as Cosmic force or en- 
ergy; religiously known as God, the Infinite Spirit or Law, the 
Word, etc., or according to Dr. John Young, as "Being, Uncrea- 
ted, Eternal, Alone," when speaking of the Creator and the Cre- 
ation. 

2. That the philosophy of Spiritualism and the philosophy 
of Nature are one. That the whole Uuiverse and every thing 
therein, is filled with the invisible Spiritual energies of nature, 
commonly known as the "Deific presence of God," or occultly 
as "the pure motionless Spirit of Divinity." 

3. A knowledge that the spirit or soul or intelligence sur- 
vives the death of the body. That "the grave does not end all." 

4. That spirits can and do return, and can and do commu- 
nicate with mortals. That spirits are sentient beings. 

5. That spirits return to earth and communicate through 
clairvoyants, through those who are clairaudient, through mate- 
rializations and etherializations, independent (or direct) and 
automatic writing, telegraphy, trance and inspirational me- 
diumship, and many other well-known and equally reliable 
processes, metaphysical, physical and psychical. 

6. That Spiritualism is nature's religion, science and phi- 
lospohy. 

7. That Spiritualism is cosmopolitan, eclectic and philo- 
sophic, receiving all good and rejecting all error; that it is non- 
sectarian. 

8. The religion of Spiritualism is above all institutions, 
creeds and other sectarian views of God. They shall all perish, 
but Spiritualism will and must endure. That Spiritualism is 
eternal, because it is founded on Truth. Spiritualism is Truth, 
but its interpreters are human and liable to err. 

9. That the Spiritual (yet natural) gifts of mediumship as 
known and demonstrated today are the gifts referred to by Paul 
in I Corinthians, Chapter XII, which every student should read, 
mark, learn and inwardly digest. Paul, in his first letter to the 
Thessalonians, IV Chapter, IB verse, again says, "But I would 
not have you "ignorant brethren concerning them which are 
asleep" (meaning the so-called dead) and in the next Chapter, 
verses 20-21, he says: "Despise not prophesying. Prove all 
things, hold fast that which is good." 

10. That the Spiritualistic Principles are the Fatherhood 
of God, the Brotherhood of Man, the continuity of Existence, 
the conviction of Immortality, the supremacy of duty, personal 
responsibility, the superiority of the Kingdom of God, which 
is not meat and drink but righteousness, peace and joy; these 
truths find an inward response that recognizes the moral au- 
thority of God who gave them. Inspiration is a perennial 



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stream. The Bible says, "Take no thought beforehand what 
ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate, but whatever shall 
be given you in that hour that speak ye, for it is not ye that 
speak." 

Rev. Dr. Minot J. Savage, the noted Unitarian minister, in 
a recent sermon, makes these wise remarks: 

"These wondrous minds of ours, these souls — ourselves — 
can under certain conditions see without eyes, hear without 
any ears, and communicate half round the globe without any 
of the ordinary means of communication. If our friends who 
have passed over are alive at all, they are alive now in the 
same natural sense as we are, and under the same Universe 
that we are." 



Spiritualism is [Naturalism. 

I read an excellent article in the Banner of Light, of 22d 
of January, 1898, by that erudite scholar, Prof. W. M. Lock- 
wood. In a review he says: 

Having come into the knowledge of Spiritualism from a 
close observation and analysis of nature's elements and forces, 
as found in a chemical laboratory, and having determined for 
ourselves that the visibility of all of nature's forms is promot- 
ed and sustained by the invisible impact and reactions of na- 
ture's unseen energies, we have reached the conclusion that 
the philosophy of Spiritualism and the philosophy of nature 
with all of her cosmic progressions are identical, and that the 
everchanging panorama of phenomena witnessed is promoted 
by the invisible spiritual energies of nature. We say spiritual 
energies of nature, not because we believe these to be the 
breath of the gods or of a God; but because their combined ac- 
tivities, their actions and reactions and their co -relations, take 
place in a chemical spiritual spectrum, or "dimensions of 
space," beyond ocular vision. 

Philosophy and science are reasoned truth. Spiritualism 
as a philosophy is naturalism. The co-relations existing be- 
tween the mortal and the life beyond the grave are as natural as 
those co-relations existing between the invisible elements of na- 
ture and the visible forms they promote. Indeed, this truth is 
a part and logical sequence to cosmic process. Its philosophy 
is the philosophy of "modes of invisible motion," connecting in 
harmonious unity the general equation of infinitude. It dis- 
covers the universe to be an ever changing panorama of phe- 
nomenal character, of which the visible is the phenomena, and 
the invisible forces promoting the visible are the real. The 
elemental forces or energies of nature are of a formative 
character, and throughout the infinitude of nature are co- 
related spiritual forces or modes of motion. 



PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SPIRITUALISM. 



]fi)hat gas Spiritualism T au lSkt and ]fi)hat Qood gas 
It J)one for gumanitj/. 



BY MRS. EMMA HARDINGE-BEITTEN. 



1. It proves man's immortality, the existence of a spirit- 
ual universe, and the continuity of life beyond the grave. 

2. It destroys fear of death and the doctrine of eternal 
punishment. (Note — There is no death to the individual Ego. ) 

3. It sweeps away the idea of a personal devil, and locates 
the sources of evil in man's own imperfections and sur- 
roundings. 

4. On the testimony of millions of immortal spirits, it 
solemnly affirms that every guilty soul must arise and become 
its own Savior. 

5. It proclaims the worship of an infinite, eternal and 
all-perfect Spirit, the Father of all, the God of love, wisdom 
and law. 

6. It demolishes the materialistic conception of the theo- 
logical heaven and hell. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." 

7. It is the promoter of all reforms that tend to elevate 
and benefit humanity. Its religion is " to be good and to do 
good." 

8. Whilst Spiritualism proclaims that there is a standard 
of truth in everything, it fetters no one's opinions, and teaches, 
but never forces its beliefs on any one. 

9. Concerning all spiritual life, state, and being, Spirit- 
ualism is sustained by proven facts and corroborative testi- 
mony, both ancient and modern. 

10. Its continuous phenomena, founded on facts and every 
day revelations (both being based upon immutable principles 
of God's divine law), open up endless avenues of new research 
for science, philosophy and true religion. (It is the evidence 
of life beyond.) 

11. Spiritualism is an incentive to practice good; it re- 
unites the friends separated by death; strengthens the weak by 
the presence of angel guidance, and cheers the afflicted with 
the certainty of another and better world, where justice will be 
done and every wrong righted, as in the parable of Dives and 
Lazarus. It teaches that all sin must be atoned for by personal 
suffering before happiness hereafter can be attained. 

12. Spiritualists all unite in the following summary: 
(a) The Fatherhood of God. (b) The Brotherhood of Man. 
(c) The Immortality of the Soul, (d) Personal Responsibil- 
ity, (e) Compensation and Retribution hereafter for all the 
good or evil deeds done here. (/) And a path of eternal prog- 



MAGNETIC HEALING AND OCCULT SCIENCE. 7 

ress open to every human soul that wills to tread it by the path 
of eternal good. 

While the Bible, spiritually interpreted, records similar 
phenomena and supports the philosophy, science and religion 
of Spiritualism. 



7V\ediumsbif>, 

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, 
Whose body nature is, and God the soul." 

44 What is mediumship, and who are the mediums ?" was the 
question once asked of the initiated masters of Occultism. 
Answer: "Everything is mediumistic, and every atom is a 
medium for the expression of Spiritual force. God alone is 
the great central, controlling spirit." Mediumship is a term 
applied to that psychic condition natural in some individuals 
and artificially developed in others, whereby they are enabled 
to come en rapport with invisible intelligences, and other 
powers, both physical and mental. A medium, says the author 
of the "Light of Egypt," (price $2.00) "is a person in whom 
the capacity of reception and transmission is so fully evolved 
as to become of practical value in eliciting phenomena." All 
persons are mediumistic, some more so than others, is self- 
evident when we comprehend the relation of humanity to the 
Deity and universe. A medium is the battery, so to speak, 
through which the magnetic currents or spiritual forces of 
nature flow, and which forces are utilized by the invisible intel- 
ligences from the spirit world to enable them to communicate 
with humanity. The spirit is as it were the telegraphic 
operator at the spirit end of the line. Can anyone become a 
medium? Why, certainly, if anyone wishes to. But the phase 
of mediumship depends very much ou the intellectual, physical 
and psychical nature of the individual seeking for devel- 
opment. 

The various phases and powers of mediumship which may 
be developed under the guidance and instruction of the spirits 
themselves or in accordance with such psychic laws as far as at 
present known are simply unlimited. Paul says, I Cor., xii, 4: 
" Now, there are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit." 
These may be divided into three classes : 

1. The Physical, which includes the phenomena of table 
moving or lifting, rapping, levitation, movement of articles 
without mortal means, trumpet speaking, materialization, etc. 

2. The Psychical includes dreams, visions, impressions, 
clairvoyance or spirit discernment, clairaudience or the hearing 



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of souud, voices, telepathy, intuition, psychometry or soul 
measurement, healing, etc. 

3. The Psycho-Intellectual, which comprises the gift of 
tongues, trance speaking, inspirational speaking, writing, draw- 
ing, type-writing, music and poetry, prophecies, etc., through 
the mediumship of psychics. 

The Phenomenal demonstrations of spirit power are always 
looked for, and indeed they are most essential in convincing 
the sceptic of the Truths of Spiritualism. The little tiny rap 
and the movement of a table without human contact have 
enlisted thousands of recruits, who have become good 
Spiritualists, workers and warriors for the cause of truth. The 
intellectual world of humanity to-day, is, as Brother Lockwood 
says, pleading for intelligent instruction, instructors who can 
demonstrate nature's spiritual forces and man's relation to 
cosmic progression and evolution. False instruction is as bad 
as false or fraudulent mediumship; therefore, it behooves all 
students and those seeking development to read, work, learn, 
and inwardly digest the very best spiritual, occult and psychic 
literature. The more wisdom you store up, the better, the 
higher intelligences can operate through your organism. 



I^oyn? to Investigate. 

The investigator having decided in his own mind that 
there is "something in spiritualism," seeks at once for a knowl- 
edge of the modus operandi or how to begin. 

I may say at once that the true student — the one who will 
devote time and patience to the study of psychic and Spiritual 
phenomena — will not be long before his efforts are rewarded. 
The primary and most important step, however, is for every 
student, at the very commencement, to divest his mind of all 
preconceived opinions — theologic, dogmatic or scientific. All 
that is required is an unbiased mind, logical reasoning, genuine 
common sense, and a calm reflective brain. Preconceived opin- 
ions are delusive. Many persons cheat themselves into the be- 
lief that they know all about it, whereas, they are invariably 
deficient in knowledge. A safe course is to gain knowledge 
from experience. Have faith and confidence in the statements 
you have heard regarding the phenomena and you will speedily 
realize the truth through experiment. At the very outset the 
student will meet with results which the idea of trickery can- 
not explain, and whenever he does he will have gained the 
first step leadiug to the great limitless arcana of practical or 
phenomenal Spiritualism. 

Before beginning the actual investigation it will be well to 



MAGNETIC HEALING AND OCCULT SCIENCE. 9 

become familiar with the rules and conditions necessary for the 
formation of circles, for experience has proved that sittings 
conducted in ignorance of the necessary conditions invariably 
end in failure. When in doubt or difficulty write to Professor 
Geo. W. Walrond, Denver, Colo., ($1.00 per lesson.) 



Rules fo^ Investigation. 

The following Rules were given in " Borderland " for 
forming Spiritual circles, for the assistance of all who desire to 
enter into the investigation in their own homes. They embody 
the results of Mr. J. J. Morse's personal experiences of over a 
quarter of a century, and they coincide with my own views and 
practice on the subject. 

It is quite an erroneous idea that the phenomena can only 
be obtained in the presence of professional mediums. The 
most astounding results have been obtained , in thousands of 
instances, by private families unaided by any previously devel- 
oped media, private or professional. 

The Spirit-circle is a gathering of persons who desire to 
establish relations with the world of spirits, and receive com- 
munications therefrom. As such communication is a matter 
of fact — proved by oft-repeated experiment — it follows that the 
observance of those conditions which experience suggests will 
be the surest way of obtaining the desired results. 

Among the conditions required to be observed, the follow- 
ing should receive careful consideration : 

THE PLACE. 

This should be a comfortably warmed and cheerfully lighted 
apartment, which, during the progress of the sitting, should be 
kept free from all intrusions. Circles for inquiry should 
always be held in the light. The light may be turned down 
when desirable. 

THE SITTEES. 

Those only should be requested to join in the experiment 
who are willing to devote time, and patience, to a methodical 
pursuit of the inquiry. Circles entirely composed of either 
sex are not so suitable as those in which the sexes are in pro- 
portion. In experimental circles from five to seven sitters are 
sufficient. 

THE AEEANGEMENT OF SITTEES. 

The sitters should be so arranged that a lady alternate with 
a gentleman at the table used. Any ordinary table of light 
construction is suitable. When the communication is estab- 
lished, changes in the seating of the sitters may be desired by 



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the communicating intelligence. Such change should invaria- 
bly be made, and adhered to at subsequent meetings, unless 
otherwise directed. 

THE PHENOMENA. 

Do not look for ''marvelous phenomena" at first. The 
simplest phenomenon that demonstrates the existence of an 
agency external to the sitters is of more importance to the 
inquirer than the more extraordinary phenomena, which are at 
first accepted with reserve. The initial phenomena will most 
likely take the form of tilts, or movements of the table. Such 
" tilts or movements " can be made to serve as a method of 
communicating with the unseen operators by using the follow- 
ing code of signals, i. e., one " tilt or movement " being under- 
stood as "No," two as "Doubtful," three as "Yes," in response 
to the questions which should be addressed to the agent at 
work, as soon as movements are obtained. Should "raps" be 
heard, the above code of signals can still be observed. Should 
any sitter exhibit a desire to write — as indicated by movements 
of the hand and arm — supply the person so influenced with a 
sheet of paper and a pencil, and await resulte. Should any 
sitter become entranced, do not get alarmed or hastily break up 
the sitting, as such cases are not dangerous. Passivity only is 
required. 

FOEMS OF COMMUNICATION. 

Spirits adopt various forms of communicating with man- 
kind. Trances, visions, impressions, personation, writing, are 
among the more general forms resorted to. In most of these 
cases the medium is put under a psychological state, or "con- 
trol," by the spirit operating, and during the continuance of 
the state may deliver addresses, describe spirits present, and 
also scenes in the spirit land; personate the character of 
departed friends, and repeat characteristic actions and personal 
incidents — names, dates, etc. — connected therewith, and either 
by aid of the " Psychograph," or similar agent, or by a pencil 
held in the hand in the ordinary manner, write out messages 
from the intelligences communicating. Generally the fact of 
communication is most easily established by the process known 
as "table movements," as above referred to. Seat the company at 
the table, and follow the code of signaling previously men- 
tioned, when motions or sounds are obtained. 

THE DUEATION OF CIECLES. 

Let the circle be continued for not less than one hour, even 
if no results are obtained. Twice in one week is frequent 
enough to form a circle. Let it be remembered that all circles 
are experimental; hence no one shguld be discouraged if phe- 



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nomena are not obtained at the first few sittings. Stay with 
the same circle for six sittings at least, and if no results are 
then obtained (provided the above conditions are observed) 
you may conclude that the requisite psychic elements are not 
presented by the sitters. In that case the members of the 
circle 'should try the plan of introducing fresh visitors of a suit- 
able character. A single change is frequently sufficient. 

GENERAL SUGGESTIONS. 

1. Endeavor to retain the same sitters at each sitting. 

2. Music, vocal or instrumental, is advised to open each 
meeting. It is not an absolute necessity, but it aids passivity. 

3. Avoid excitement or fatigue for some hours before 
attending the circle. Never indulge in stimulants previous to 
sitting. 

4. Do not sit with, or admit to your circle, any one whom 
you dislike, or in whom you have not perfect confidence. 
Avoid acrimonious discussion. Honest scepticism is no barrier 
to the inquiry, but prejudice and suspicion are undesirable 
anywhere. 

5. The absence of visible results is no proof that no 
advance has been made. Often the most is done when the 
least is evident to any of our senses. Patience will reap its 
own reward. 

6. If you have any deep-rooted religious objection to 
the subject, or any bigoted aversion to it, leave it entirely 
alone. 

Remember that passivity, patience and perseverence are 
sure to produce successful results. Owing to the want of these 
attributes " many are called, few are chosen." Development 
of mediumship is as natural as the growth of a plant, but sub- 
ject to natural law. Written lessons or instructions given 
through the mails at $1.00 each, by the compiler of this pam- 
phlet, Geo. W. Walrond, Opera House Block, Denver, Colo. 



7V\ecbanical ^elps and literature. 

Various mechanical instruments are used to assist in the 
production of mediumistic manifestations. The Ouija Talking 
Board ($1.00), for messages from the spirits themselves; the 
Planchette (60c), for writing messages; the Occult Demonstra- 
tors ($1.00), for demonstrating the continuity of life; Psyche, 
or the Developing Cabinet ($1.00), for developing raps, table 
tipping, slate writing, and other mediumistic phases; also other 
instruments. These may be had from Mr. Geo. W. Walrond, 
on mailing order value enclosed. He carries a large stock of 



12 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SPIRITUALISM, 

books on Spiritualism, Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Astrology, 
Palmistry, Occultism, Theosophy, Magic, etc., at publishers' 
prices; hiaatalso trie weekly and monthly Spiritualistic and Oc- 
cult papers; also the authorized agent for yearly subscriptions. 
What shall I read? is the question asked every day. The 
first thing to do is to subscribe for a weekly Spiritual paper; 
The Banner of Light (Boston), the oldest of the weeklies, is 
issued at $2.00 yearly; The Progressive Thinker, (Chicago); 
The Philosophical, Journal (San Francisco); Light of Truth 
(Columbus, O.) Excellent papers, are each $L,00 per annum, 
of 52 issues, mailed free; or 25 cents per quarter. In the way 
of literature, let me know your wants and tastes, and I will 
advise accordingly. I am a subscription agent for the Spirit- 
ual papers, weeklies, monthlies, or quarterlies. See list of 
books for sale on the back cover of this pamphlet. 



The Science of purine and Mental pealing. 

" Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it"— Shakespeare. 

" All ailments can be entirely dominated, forever cast out, 
by those who realize that Mind is the master of the body, and 
the body the servant of the Mind." — Eleanor Kirk. 

Of all branches of Occult science, there is no study of such 
practical interest and importance as that which deals with the 
gift of healing. The practice of Psychic or mental healing by 
the laying on of hands, or by prayers and ceremonies, is as old 
as the human race. The Romans, the Greeks, the Persians, 
and other nations made practical use of this psychic or mental 
force. The Egyptians were well acquainted with its secrets, as 
on some of their ancient monuments are to be found repre- 
sentations of the hypnotic and mesmeric passes. The high 
priests practiced it in the temples. 

The Bible is replete with numerous examples of the art of 
healing by touch. Jesus said: " In My name shall they cast out 
devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up 
serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt 
them; they shall lay their hands on the sick and they 
shall recover." This command applies to all mankind to-day 
as well as then. 

A few quotations from the Bible will bear out these state- 
ments: "He put forth His hand and touched him, saying, J 
will be thou clean," — Matt, viii., 3. "Lay Thy hand upon her 
and she shall live." — Matt, ix., 18. "Many were astonished 
that such mighty works were wrought by His hand." — Mark 
vi., 2. "Lay hands upon the sick and they shall recover." 
Mark xvi., 18. "The Lord granted signs and wonders to be 



MAGNETIC HEALING AND OCCULT SCIENCE. 13 

done by their hands." — Acts xiv., 3. And again, I will go to 
an earlier date than this. "The Lord said unto Moses, take 
Joshua, the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay 
thy hands upon him, take him before the priests and congrega- 
tions and ask counsel from Him. And he laid his hands upon 
him as the Lord commanded." — Numbers xvii., 18-23. "And 
Joshua was full of the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid 
his hands upon him." — Deul . xxiv., 9. 

Hundreds of other quotations could be given to prove that 
not only magnetic healing, animal magnetism, astrology and 
clairvoyance, but Spiritualism and every phase of spiritualistic 
phenomena, were known and used thousands of years before 
the Christian era. Those individuals who were called seers, 
prophets, magicians, diviners, etc., were consulted about the 
ordinary affairs of life, as well as about religious matters. 

They were no other than spiritual mediums, lucid somnam- 
bulists, or magnetised persons in the highest stage of magnetic 
influence or clairvoyance. Our modern mediums have the same 
powers, they are clairvoyant, clairaudient, prophets, healers, and 
discerners of spirits. 

In Job we read that God speaks to man in dreams and 
visions to warn him of evil and to instruct him for good. Here 
we see a reference to the phenomena of somnambulistic revela- 
tions; and realizing that the Laws of the Universe are unchange- 
able, the same yesterday, today, and forever, we can readily 
comprehend that the healing and other powers manifested 
through pshychic individuals ara the operations of natural law. 
The true magnetic healer has a knowledge of these Laws right 
in front of him ; he sees them as it were, visible and tangible, 
and without doubt possesses a magnetic power which he is able 
through his will power to transmit to his patient. Magnetism 
is the medium between spirit and matter and gives the latter as 
it were self consciousness. Blood and nerves are necessary to 
sensitize it, hence its efficacy in the elimination and cure of dis- 
ease. 

As to employment of magnetism, I may instance the heal- 
ing of the son of the widow of Zarephath by Elijah, who laid 
himself on the child's body and excited magnetic influence, 
with a prayer for its success. Instances of modern cures 
brought about in a similar manner are recorded in the press 
almost daily. 

Elisha and the Shunamite's son affords another striking 
illustration. In this case Elisha sent his staff, with directions 
for it to be laid upon the child until he came. The modern 
healers send their patients magnetised articles to take their 
place w T hen they are prevented attending, to induce magnetic 
slumber. Many have often done this, and sent notes that have 



U PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SPIRITUALISM. 

been the means of putting the patients to sleep and freeing 
them from pain. Read the Acts of the Apostles: 

"The prominent feature of the physical manifestations of 
Christ consisted in the healing of the sick. Jesus (T. J. Hud- 
son says), was the first who correctly formulated the exact 
conditions necessary and indispensable to the exercise of the 
power to heal the sick by psychic methods, and that the con- 
ditions which Jesus declared to be necessary to enable Him to 
exercise that power, are the same conditions which are neces- 
sary today. That is true, and that condition is Faith. Faith 
in the healer and Faith in the patient. By way of illustration, 
read Matthew rx chapter, 28-29-30. "According to your faith 
be it unto you.'* 

There is a psychic or soul power, a vital spiritual force 
in every human being over the functions and sensations of the 
body, and that power can be put into operation at will and ap- 
plied to the relief and (in many cases) the cure of suffering 
humanity. Different methods have been employed to effect a 
cure through this power by an effort of the will, but the princi- 
ple has been the same no matter how widely different the meth- 
ods to bring about the desired result. The following are the 
recognized methods at present in vogue, viz: 

1. Religious Faith Cure. 4. Psychic or Spirit Healing. 

2. Mind or Mental Healing. 5. Mesmeric Healing. 

3. Christian or Divine Science 6. Hypnotic Healing. 

- 7. Metaphysical or Psycho-Magnetic. 
That the mind has everything to do with these methods is a 
fact. Disease may be induced by suggestion, as, for instance, 
when Bernheim was able to produce a blister on the back of a 
patient by applying a postage stamp and suggesting that it was 
a fly blister; and many other authenticated experiments. Now 
if disease can be induced by suggestion or through the mind, so 
can disease be eliminated by suggestion or mental influence, or 
through the magnetic influence of the healer or metaphysician, 
providing healer and patient are in "rapport." There are four 
things required of the patient to effect a cure: (1) his disease 
should be a natural one; (2) he should have a certain amount 
of will; (3) a certain amount of vitality; and (4) Faith in the 
power of the healer and that the disease can be cured. The 
magnetic healer requires Spiritual perception, Spiritual knowl- 
edge and Spiritual power. These attributes or qualities will 
not only give the healer -a deep insight into the nature and 
cause of the disease, but also the spiritual energy and power to 
cure the disease. The power is divine. (The hypnotizer does 
not cure, but merely paralyses the will (says Paracelsus) of a 
patient and acts upon his imagination. ) Jesus himself acknowl- 
edged his inability to heal the sick in the absence of faith. 



MAGNETIC HEALING AND OCCULT SCIENCE. 15 

u 0h ye of little faith," said He to His followers when they an- 
nounced a decrease of their powers to heal the sick. See also 
Mark vi, verses 4-5-6: "And he could do there no mighty 
works because of their unbelief." His and their powers were 
limited to the immutable law of the invisible spiritual energies 
of nature. He did not say to the sick "I cured thee" but He 
said, "thy faith made thee whole." It is God or nature's laws 
who heals. The healer is merely the instrument through 
which the law operates. 

The faith really necessary is a perfect confidence in the 
power, or, in other words, a perfect passive mental attitude; pass- 
ivity on the part of the healer is equally essential. Now, as 
perfect passivity cannot be attained so well during waking hours 
as during sleep, it must be self-evident that sleep is the most 
desirable time to exercise the gift of healing, though healing 
may be effected at any time. 

The condition of natural sleep has been found to be the 
best condition for the reception of telepathic impressions, 
spirit visions and other psychical phenomena; and as telepathy, 
or suggestions from the healer, play the most important part in 
all psychic or mental healing, it is advisable that all' healing 
suggestions should be communicated by an effort of the will on 
the part of the healer just before going to sleep, and while the 
patient is in a state of natural sleep. The best possible condi- 
tion for psychic healing is attained when both, healer and pa- 
tient, are in a state of natural sleep. Faith or confidence, how- 
ever, is required on both sides. The method of healing by sug- 
gestion during sleep is as applicable to self-healing as it is to 
healing, others. Somnambulism, restlessness and dreams, from 
whatever cause, may be controlled under auto-sugsestion if the 
science of mental power be vigorously applied nightly before 
going to sleep. Many cases of Somnambulism have been cured 
by these means. 

Healing during sleep is the best system yet discovered. It 
follows the laws of nature by bringing into activity the powers 
of the mind when they are naturally at their best. The mind 
is strongest when the body is sunk in slumber, and as the cure 
is to be effected through the mind, or by telepathic transfer- 
rence of suggestion from the mind of the healer to the mind of 
the patient, it follows as a natural law that sleep must be the 
best opportunity for exercising the divine gift of healing. 

If you will remember that the mind (the master of the 
body) has a vital concern over the condition of the body, (which 
is the servant of the mind), and can influence it towards disease, 
you will readily understand how through the same channel 
disease may be eliminated from the human body through the 
efforts of the mind. Hypnotic, metaphysical, and magnetic 



16 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SPIRITUALISM, 

healing in the cure and elimination of disease is now practiced 
by many of the leading medical men in every country. Doc- 
tors have for a generation or more recognized the powers. of the 
mind as an important factor in the successful treatment of dis- 
eases. From a p a rsonal experience of fifteen years, I most un- 
hesitatingly say, that magnetic treatments will positively cure 
all mental and nervous troubles, quicker than the usual medical 
drug methods. A consultation and a magnetic treatment will 
save many a heavy doctor's bill, and very often a patient's life. 

After having given a magnetic treatment, shake your hands 
well and wash them thoroughly in hot or cold water. This will 
render you impervious to any ill effects; though keeping the 
mind positive during the treatment is a very safe way to resist 
" taking on" any trouble. Do not permit on any account men- 
tally excited persons to enter the sick chamber. Encouraging 
thoughts and cheerful minds are the best and surest means 
towards restoring the patient's health and curing the disease. 

Magnetic healers should be familiar with anatomy, physi- 
ology, and the nature of diseases generally. 



Things the Jttagnetie Healer Should Never Forget. 

1. That disease is simply an unbalanced state of health, a 
lack of harmony, produced through the inharmonies of the 
mind. Health is equilibrium, mental and physical. 

2. That the complication of a disease often exceeds in 
importance the primary disorder, which invariably is of mental 
origin, or due to external vibratory inharmonies. 

3. That the reason and cause of most ailments can be 
traced to disturbances in the mind. 

4. That most derangements vary with the personality, 
environments and mental characteristics of the patient. 

5. That stimulants and narcotics are simply spurs and 
gags, stifling the cry of nature for relief. Ease of mind is 
the best stimulant, arid good magnetism the most powerful nar- 
cotic, nature's best remedies. Thought permeates every 
"atom." Thoughts are veritable things. 

6. That proper diet, clothing, climate and occupatiou, 
with rest of body and mind are the chief, means for the restora- 
tion and preservation of health. Recommend cheerfulness. 

Note. — Hundreds of permanent cures of nervous and mental 
diseases have been effected through the magnetic powers of Mr. 
Geo. W. Walrond. Write or call on him, as per the address on 
cover, for further particulars. He is frequently engaged by 
physicians to diagnose clairvoyantly the diseases of patients. 

His address is Opera House Block, Denver, Colo. 



MAGNETIC HEALING AND OCCULT SCIENCE. 17 



Oggultism. 



The question is often asked what the word means. Occult- 
ism is the Philosophy and Science of the mysterious, hidden, 
invisible, unknown, undiscovered, and secret Spiritual forces of 
nature (spirit and matter); not only that which is hidden from 
the eye, but from the understanding as well; and as man is part 
of the universe, Occultism embraces also the science of the 
secret or unseen spiritual forces of man's physical, psychical, 
mental and spiritual nature. Occult Science unravels the 
origin and soul of things by opening the mysterious doors of 
creation and surveying the operation of the laws of the invisi- 
ble spiritual energies of nature, its forces, and its laws of 
vibrations. Forces and intelligences which we but faintly 
understand, surround us on every side; influences for good or 
for evil impinge upon us often unconsciously; and through 
ignorance of the laws governing these forces, intelligences and 
influences, we drift along the stormy oceans of life's pilgrim- 
age, victims really, of our own lack of knowledge, for Occult 
law is simply unrevealed natural law; unrevealed because so 
many prefer to go along with closed eyes, prefer, in fact, to die 
in the " good old faith " of their ancestors. Nature gave us 
eyes to see with, but the " dark ages " blinded the vision of 
thousands; which darkness, however, is being rapidly dispelled, 
though there are still some traces of the old disease in our 
mental natures. Occult science has not only demonstrated 
that through the currents of thought between man and man, 
through waves of vibration, and other invisible forces our lives 
may be rendered happy or miserable, according to the good or 
evil influences of those mental currents; but it has also discov- 
ered and made known the laws by which man can rise superior 
to these conditions, through the power of his mind. Occultism 
teaches how to acquire this power of right action and right 
thought. Occultism reveals the mysteries of man's inner nature 
and the Occult laws of the Cosmos. Occult studies will most 
assuredly unfold the divine faculties of the Ego, build up the 
individuality of each student, and evolve the latent powers 
within the human soul. We are responsible beings, and must 
therefore get away from the thraldom inherited from ancestry 
and the dead ages, and we can only do so by a thorough course 
of practical Occult training, which includes the broad princi- 
ples of physical and psychical culture, the development or 
enfranchisement of the soul, the cultivation and practical utili- 
zation of the attributes and spiritual senses of the soul, and the 
complete subjugation of every animal passion, unprincipled 
desire and evil thought. The primary law of life is 



18 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SPIRITUALISM. 

equilibrium and harmony, and this can only be established 
through methodical procedure, a joint training of body, mind 
and soul. 

OCCULT TRAINING. 

There are many rules and methods for Occult training 
which might be given, but thorough and complete unfoldment 
can only be attained through the instruction of teachers and 
Occult masters who have passed through the various classes 
and courses of Occult science. The compiler of this "Practical 
Guide" will be glad at any time to afford the aspirant to occult 
power any information at his command. The student, however, 
may, by way of an experiment, provide himself or herself with 
a circular mirror of from four to six inches in diameter, with a 
white wafer affixed in the centre thereof. Every evening after 
sundown he should sit in an easy chair or recline upon a couch 
in the most comfortable position, and then gaze upon the mir- 
ror, fixing his eye calmly and steadily one minute upon the 
white wafer, willing at the same time to increase the attention, 
concentration, and abstraction, and commence to formulate 
mental or metaphysical objects and then try to project them 
externally upon the wall or ceiling. By continual and persist- 
ent practice wonderful results will follow. First the optical ef- 
fect will be an apparition of the white wafer appearing as a 
black spot on the wall or ceiling. After repeated efforts two 
spots will appear, then three, five, seven or even more. This 
exercise will ultimately develop the occult power of clairvoy- 
ance, spirit discernment, psychometry, and other phases. 
By way of change a plain glass of crystal water, with or with- 
out the wafered spot, may be substituted, and surprising re- 
sults of spiritual lucidity will be accomplished. A little black 
ink in a white saucer if gazed at from 15 to 30 minutes will 
likewise produce excellent results. At first a series of different 
colors will be seen, then perhaps geometrical and floral shapes, 
followed by landscape and other pictures, and lastly when lucid- 
ity of vision and clairvoyance has been developed the student 
will behold the figures and forms of many loved ones who have 
passed over to the great beyond. These exercises and experi- 
ments will gradually lead the Soul into the power or ability to 
delineate the past history of any object or person in all its orig- 
inal reality. Of course many will find all kinds of obstacles 
and drawbacks on the road to development, but remember, 
everything comes to him who desires and perseveres, and that 
Passivity Perseverance and Patience are the absolute essentials 
to success as well as the positive power of Self Control. When 
in doubt, write to Professor Greo. W. Walrond, Opera House 
Block, Denver, Colorado, who will answer all letters and give 
practical advice for the small fee of $1. 



MAGNETIC HEALING AND OCCULT SCIENCE. 19 



Astrology 



Owing to the continually increasing popularity and interest 
in this most fascinating and most instructive branch of the 
Occult Sciences, I am constrained to devote a few pages towards 
advancing its claims. Beyond doubt a knowledge of Astral 
Science "is one of God's supremest gifts to man." 

Astrology, {vide "The Light of Egypt" p. 164), is a com- 
bination of two sciences, viz: Astronomy and Corresponden- 
ces. "These two are related to each other as hand and glove; 
the former deals with suns, moons, planets and stars, and 
strictly confines its researches to a knowledge of their size, dis- 
tance and motion; while the latter (correspondences) deals with 
the spiritual and physical influences of the same bodies, first 
upon each other, then upon the earth, and lastly upon the or- 
ganism of man. Astronomy is the external lifeless glove; Cor- 
respondences the living hand within. Astrology does not im- 
ply fatality, on the contrary, probably two-thirds of man's so- 
called misfortunes are the result of his benighted ignorance." 

Paracelsus (born 1493, died 1541) says: Astronomy deals 
only with the physical aspect of planets and stars, Astrology, 
nobler and higher, deals with the psychical influences which 
the souls of the heavenly orbs exert upon each other, and upon 
the microcosm of man. He also wrote that "the beginning of 
Wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power." This is par- 
ticularly true of the results derivable from a course of study in 
Occultism, and the Science of the Soul and Stars. 

Tycho Brahe (1546 — 1601) German author wrote "To deny 
the influence of the stars, is to deny the wisdom and providence 
of God." Dr. Richard Saunders (scientific astrologist and 
physicist), also wrote, "The stars have such an influential 
power that we act by them, they have great power over us." 

Astrology is therefore one of the esoteric sciences, which, 
correctly interpreted and properly applied, becomes a valuable 
aid to the successful work of life with its many perplexities and 
difficulties. It deals accurately with subjects of vital import- 
ance to everyone, high or low, rich or poor, financier or trades- 
man, artizan, mechanic or laborer, lady or gentleman; besides it 
tells you of future events which cannot possibly be obtained 
from any other .source of science or knowledge in the world to- 
day. (Psychometry and Clairvoyance have also opened up 
new regions of research and avenues of information hitherto 
undreamed of, and directs the pilgrim in search of truth, to 
other and higher realms of knowledge). Astrology is a life 
chart and mariner's compass combined. It points out not only 



20 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SPIRITUALISM, 

the true road to success, but warns you of the quicksands and 
dangers that beset voyagers on the journey of life. It has stood 
the tests of thousands of years. Astrology enables the astrolo- 
ger to read from the map of the heavens at the time of a per- 
son's birth, many useful and important things relating to one's 
life, past, present and future. It describes the person's partic- 
ular temperament and disposition, and the general points of 
strength and weakness of character; it shows liability to, or im- 
munity from sickness, and in a general way indicates what part 
of the body are weak and liable to be affected; also the natural 
strength and vitality of the constitution; it indicates mental 
abilities and propensities, and aptitude for different affairs and 
studies; it tells whether marriage would prove unhappy or the 
reverse ; it gives information concerning profitable or unprofita- 
ble journeys; also concerning friends, children, honor, wealth, 
partnership, talent, and in short, most matters of every day im- 
portance. As everything is governed by immutable law, future 
events are forecast scientifically and accurately. Grood and evil 
days, months and years are also calculated with exactness. It 
is a great pity and a serious hindrance to universal progress 
and spiritual growth that the Science of Astrology is so little 
understood, but the fact is, as Paracelsus observes, both, Al- 
chemy and Astrology, because they deal with supersensual 
things cannot be known to persons who are not in the possess- 
ion of supersensual powers of perception. Alchemy deals with 
Astral and Spirit principles, chemistry with physical matter, 
Astronomy with the physical bodies of the heavens, and Astrol- 
ogy with the Soul essence of these bodies and their psychic in- 
fluences on humanity and the world, (the Earth) generally 



Gan a Distant World Influence this World op Its Inhabitants? 

Not only an astronomer, but every schoolboy who has a 
rudimentary knowledge of Astronomy, will say that the moon 
influences the earth and its inhabitants. We know for certain 
that the ebb and flow of the tides can be predicted by the 
course of the moon; and, in like manner, any physiologist or 
medical man will assure you that the power of certain diseases 
is increased or decreased in accordance. with the waxing or wan- 
ing of the moon. This is a fact well marked in their daily ob- 
servations, particularly so in all the great Lunatic Institutions 
of Europe and America. Now the moon is only a satellite. 
The influence of the planets, which are more powerful, must be 
greater on the Earth as well as on her inhabitants. 

The Astrological Scientist knows of a certainty that the 
planets affect mankind, and that the degree of influence, good 



MAGNETIC HEALING AND OCCULT SCIENCE. 21 

or bad, depends upon their various aspects and positions: As 
the late Professor Richard A. Proctor, one of the leading As- 
tronomers of our day, observes — "There is something impress- 
ive in the thought that the souls of the sun and moon and plan- 
ets act not only upon each other, but on the microcosm of man.' 

Astrology in its inception was a science — if one ought not 
rather to call it a religion — deserving of a respectful considera- 
tion, to say the least. Direct observation was all in favor of 
the belief that the heavenly bodies influence in a most special 
manner the fortunes (Karma) of men. The chief of all the 
heavenly bodies, the sun, produces such manifest effects, both 
in his daily and his yearly course, and the moon seems so obvi- 
ously powerful over the waters of the sea, and other ways, that 
it was and is the most natural thing in the world to assume that 
the other celestial orbs also have their special influences. 

The Rev. G. H. Lock, of Hull England, says: "There is 
no department of human life, either private or national, to 
which astrological science will not apply, no kind of human 
need upon which it will not bear. It is one of God's supremest 
gifts to man, without the use of which he will, as now, go 
stumbling on in an unneedful darkness, but in the devout and 
exalted use of which he may walk in a splendid day." 

Professor Joseph R. Buchanan, of San Jose, California, 
Physician, Scientist aud Author, in Periodicity, page 31, says: 
" If I were now to give my best advice to a friend at his outset 
in life, I would advise him to get the advice of a scientific and 
honest master of astrology who would show him the path of 
destiny which he has already trodden and must follow through 
life, either blindly stumbling or with his eyes open to all dan- 
gers. The Ruler of the Universe has fixed our pathway and we 
can walk in it with eyes open or shut. I regret that I did not 
learn the value of the science iu time. It would have saved me 
•from serious errors." A chart has saved thousands. 

Charles H. Mackay, Occultist and Author, Boston, says: 
"The study of the stars is a most wonderful help and inspira- 
tion to the earnest Occult student. While pursuing this branch 
of research you gradually absorb harmonious qualities, which 
slowly but surely creates of your organism a new being. Make 
the stars your friends, and you may enter a new and strange 
field of knowledge. Truly a sublime field and limitless, yet not 
difficult to approach." In the "Oracle," January, 1898, he 
says: "When you wish to engage the services of an astrol- 
oger, write Professor Geo. W. Walrond, Opera House Block, 
Denver, Colo. If strong, straight forward testimony from well 
known men may be indicative of honor and ability, surely Pro- 
fessor Walrond is most trustworthy and competent." 



22 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SPIRITUALISM. 



Astrology does not imply fatality. The Heavenly bodies 
urge, predispose and influence to a great extent, but they do 
not compel. It is the wise man who rules his stars, and the 
fool who blindly obeys them. Ignorance of planetary influence 
is a state of bondage most fatal to success. Remember this. 

He who remains ignorant of his genius or talent will be 
blown about by every breeze. The definition of Ignorance is 
sin, suffering, sorrow, disease, crime, poverty and death. "I 
will be what I will to be." Everything that happens is the 
result of LAW, which the Astrologer interprets. 

Please remember there is no such thing as Fatality. Plan- 
etary influences act only upon the physical body and are always 
amenable to the intelligent mind action. The spiritual man is 
absolute monarch over every physical condition. Ignorance is 
the cause of all error and darkness, and Intelligence is the 
remedy and cure. "Man know thyself." 

Every success in life depends on correct thinking, as well 
as on good planetary influences. Cultivate a firm belief in and 
reliance on the invincible "I" (the Ego) and watch the "Voices 
of the Stars," and success, happiness and prosperity will be at 
your command. 

I recommend the study of Occult Astrology as conducive 
to the unfoldment of Spiritual, Psychical and Intellectual fac- 
ulties. Tne "Light of Egypt," "Celestial Dynamics," and the 
'.' Language of the Stars," (written by an adept of the Hermetic 
Brotherhood of Luxor), are particularly suited to enlighten 
students as to the correspondence existing between the Soul 
and the Stars; also to lead him (or her) by safe and easy 
lessons into the hidden realms of Occult force. Raphael's 
Guide Books, Natal Astrology by Gr. Wilde, Butler's Solar Bi- 
ology, Simmonite's Arcana, are all excellent Text Books for ac- 
quiring a knowledge of Practical Astronomy. These and many 
other works Mr. Gr. W. Walrond carries in stock, at publisher's 
prices. Write him, Opera House Block, Denver, Colo. Mr.- 
Walrond has hundreds of testimonials from the press of Europe 
and America as to his ability as a scientific and accurate As- 
trologer, but space will only admit of one or two of the latest. 

November, 21, 1896. 

" If there is a teacher of Occult and Mystical Sciences capa- 
ble of convincing those in search of the truth, Mr. Walrond is 
able to do so. He is adept in the art and can give you an As- 
trologically correct reading." — Denver Mercury and Examiner. 

September 2, 1897. 

" Professor Walrond is making Astrological Charts with 
scientific and mathematical accuracy. We can personally tes- 
tify of the excellence of these Horoscopes." — Philosophical 
Journal. 



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dlaii'Vo^aqce, pgflohometflj and Intuition. 

Shall we only trust what the ear can hear, 

What the hand can grasp and the eye make clear, 

Shall the dearest hopes of the human heart 

In our inmost being have no part, 

Because we fail to understand 

The movement of an Unseen Hand ? 

Clairvoyance, Psychometry and Intuition are forms of 
mediuinship depending chiefly upon the degree of sensitiveness 
attained by the Psychometrist, and incidentally of the mind in 
the Clairvoyant; brain formation and magnetic temperament 
possessing only secondary influence in their development. 
Psychometry (to feel) is one of the most subtle and occult of 
all the vibratory revealments. It is very convincing to the 
skeptic as to the existence of an occult or hidden light beyond 
the reach of the ordinary senses. It is perception and impres- 
sion through the sense of intensified touch. Clairvoyance (to 
see beyond) is a soul force or psychic power enabling the 
reader to penetrate into matters far befond the limits of the 
human senses. The clairvoyant can see and hear; distance, 
time or place, being no barriers to his intensified powers of see- 
ing and hearing; he can diagnose disease. His lucidity of 
mind enables him to advise on business and family matters in 
a manner which anvariably surprises his sitters; he can locate 
mines, give prophetic readings, describe spirit frieuds and give 
names of spirit guides, etc. Whenever there are family or 
business troubles, personal changes, and difhculiies, the clair- 
voyant should be consulted. 

Clairvoyance, Psychometry and Intuition are the birth- 
rights of one and all, and the day is fast approaching when 
each will be taught as branches of "Psychical Science," just as 
necessary for the development of the spiritual fuculties of the 
human soul as a knowledge of " Physical Science " is necessary 
for the development of the human intellect. Clairvoyance is 
an art, a science, a profession, and is as much entitled to recog- 
nition, study and attainment as music, painti ng, poetry, litera- 
ture, or any other art. It is the Lucidity of the mind, but 
unfortunately too often latent. It is no gift, but inherent as a 
universal possibility common to every man, woman, or child. 
When developed under proper methodical training, it can be 
brought to the surface and utilized in the cognizing of facts, 
persons, things and principles; also, in delineating events, past, 
present and future, and to contact certain knowledges of per- 
sons present, distant, dead, or alive, independent of the ordinary 






MAGNETIC HEALING AND OCCULT SCIENCE. 25 



avenues of sense. It is intensified vision, or a " seeing beyond 
and into" the soul of things, and "agoing from cause to 
effect," as usually understood by the ordinarily educated rnind. 
Intuition is the highest quality of the human mind; and, when 
active, is the very highest nature of clairvoyance. It is the 
instantaneous knowledge ot past, present and future facts, 
principles, persons, events and things. To develop Clairvoy- 
ance, the student should carry out passively, patiently, and 
perseveringly the exercises referred to under Occultism, (page 
18 ); also sit alone in the silence and meditatively in as quiet a 
portion of your house as possible, say every evening after 
twilight, from fifteen to thirty minutes at a time, or until you 
feel you "have had enough of it." Sit with back of head due 
north. Be perfectly sure to check daily the slightest evil 
thought, word or deed; and gossip, scandal, libel, etc., must be 
prohibited. Cultivate all the time a tranquil, self-possessed 
state of mind, and hold in check grief, sorrow, regrets, joy, sur- 
prise, or pain. Let no thoughts of business, financial, family, 
or other people's affairs trouble the mind. In fact, "mind your 
own business." is not only conducive to success, health and 
happiness in life generally, but absolutely essential to success- 
ful spiritual lucidity and development of the powers herein 
treated of. Remember that the "repeater" is worse than the 
story teller. "It is the "repeater" of stories told who breaks 
up homes and separates relatives and friends, and plays the 
"devil." 

Psychometry, the sense of spiritual perception and im- 
pression through touch, can be developed by placing the tips of 
your fingers in contact or touch with persons, letters, or 
objects and carefully noting the first and strongest impressions. 
Systematise and record these carefully, and this branch of 
Clairvoyance will also be attainable. The secret lies in the 
beain cells in the FINGEK tips. The grey matter brain 
cells of perception have been dissected out of the finger-tips of 
the blind. Standing point up beneath all the ridges so plainly 
seen with a magnifying glass on the skin of the inside of the 
finger ends are the so-called corpuscles of Pacini, which are 
arranged in the exact semblance of the keys of a piano, and are 
said by Meissner to crackle and give forth a different sound in 
every age of each person. Through constant use the finger tips 
of the blind acquire this unusaal development, of psychometric 
power, perceptive faculties and impressional ability, with more 
and more perfect performance of function, or the sense of 
finger-tip touch. Further instructions on these subjects may 
be had from Professor Geo. W. Walrond, Opera House Block, 
Denver, Colorado, $1 per lesson or letter. Please consult him 



26 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SPIRITUALISM. 



^Palmistry. 



Palmistry. — Some years ago, when I knew nothing of the 
science of Cheirognomy and Chieromancy, I strongly pro- 
nounced a verdict of delusion over those who advocated Palm- 
istry, in any shape, or form, or system. After many years of 
persistent study, experiment and practice, I have discovered 
that "As the mind so is the form." That as the hands are the 
servants of the human system, so are the hands a most accurate 
Map or Chart of that system, past, present, and future. So, 
many medical and scientific facts have been collected to demon- 
strate its accuracy, that Palmistry stands to-day pre-eminently 
as one ot the acknowledged branches of Occultism. There is 
an undoubted and manifest nerve connection between the brain 
and hand, and every line, girdle, chain, star, cross, ring, square, 
triangle, spot, dash, cross-lines, or other marks have a distinct 
signification as the result of that nerve connection, and the 
Scientific and Clairvoyant Palmist can read in those lines and 
marks their esoteric interpretation. In the 37th chapter of 
Job, 7th verse, one translation of the Hebrew runs thus: "God 
placed signs or seals in the hands of men, that all men might 
know their woiks;" evidently meaning that the lines of the 
hands are the "Markings of God that all men might know their 
works;" also indicating that the Jews must have learned the 
art of Palmistry in those good old by-gone days. Solomon sriys 
in Proverbs iii., 16th verse, " Length of days in her right hand, 
riches and honor are in her left," and so on is Palmistry fre- 
quently referred to in sacred records. The " Language of the 
Hand" is now reduced to a philosophy and a science, and a 
study that will profit any one who will devote a few spare hours 
to it every week. There is one indisputable fact, and that is, 
that the study of the science of Palmistry assists largely, as 
indeed every branch of Occult science does, in the unfoldment 
of the faculty of "Intuition" and other phases of intellectual 
and mental phenomena. Palmistry is generally divided into two 
branches: Cheirognomy, which implies the character, dispo- 
sition, temperament, passions, health, qualifications, adaptabil- 
ities, etc., of the individual; and Cheiromancy, which reveals in 
the formations, lines and marks the events of life, past, present, 
and future, and the circumstances and conditions of persons, 
(psychical and physical), and the qualities derivable from the 
planetary influences of the starry heavens, for both oriental and 
modern sciences concur that physical man and nature are one. 
The soul of the planets, the soul of the earth, and the soul of 
man are directly related one to the other. Their changes, posi- 
tions, and planetary aspects react upon humanity, affecting and 



MAGNETIC HEALING AND OCCULT SCIENCE. 27 

realtering man's proportions, characteristics, conditions and 
appearance. For many ages these results have been noted and 
registered, not only with experiments connected with the 
science of Astrology, but also through the changeability of the 
signs or marks in the hand. The science of Astrology confirms 
the truth of the science or art of Palmistry. There are many 
works on Palmistry, but I can specially recommend Cheiro's 
Language of the Hand, Mrs. Henderson's Guide, and others. 
Please address Professor Geo. W. Walrond, Opera House Block, 
Denver, Colorado, for any further information. 



4{YPN0TISM 



I have not devoted any part of this work to Mesmerism or 
Hypnotism as so many works are easily and readily obtainable 
on the subject, but I desire to impress my readers that there 
is not the harm or danger in Hypnotism which many fear. I 
do not recommend its application at all except at the hands of 
thoroughly qualified and experienced practitioners. 



Some Fundamental Propositions. 

BY X. LA MOTTE SAGE PH. D. LL. D. 

I wish to submit the following fundamental propositions as 
bearing indirectly, if not directly, upon the theme of Hyp- 
notism: 

1. No one can be hypnotized against his will, remember. 

2. No one can be hypnotized unless he complies with cer- 
tain conditions, and does his part to bring about the state. 

3. Anyone who is hypnotized has done more himself to 
induce the state, than the operator has done. 

4. The hypnotist possesses no special power, nor can he 
gain permanent control over any one, or absolute control even 
temporarily, without the subjects' consent. 

5. To be hypnotized in no respect shows a weakness, nor 
is the condition in any sense a pathological one. 

6. Hypnotism within itself is absolutely free from harm. 
From the above we see that a clear explanation to the 

patient, setting forth the true nature of hypnotism, and asking 
him to concentrate his mind upon the suggestions, is a most 
desirable prelude to an attempt to induce the state. 

While hypnotism does very little, indeed, in comparison 
with what the subject must do, still it takes much knowledge 
and long practice to do that little well. 



28 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SPIRITUALISM, 

Ten Eavtts of Success in Cife. 

Compiled from 500 letters received from business men all 
over the United States by W. S. Crafts, of Washington, D. C. 

"First: Never interpret or repeat scandal on any account. 

"Second: Let your spoken word be as reliable as your 
written note or contract. Never take anyone's word for any- 
thing, however, and in business matters insist in having every- 
thing in black and white. Never "repeat" without permission. 

"Third: Never pay a bill without taking a receipt in full. 

"Fourth: Treat customers as friends and never allow them 
to be disappointed. 

"Fifth: Keep down expenses. 

"Sixth: Invest profits safely. 

"Seventh: Live within your income. 

"Eighth: If hard pressed for money inform your wife. 

"Ninth: Don't boast of your business to anyone. 

"Tenth: Learn to say yes or no at the right times and 
overcome obstacles." 



Who &re the Spiritualists. 

It is almost superfluous to invite the reader's attention to 
the evidences of and testimonies to the psychical and spiritual 
phenomena of spirit return, materializations, slate' writing, le- 
viation, of solid heavy articles without human contact, clairvoy- 
ance, spirit photography, direct spirit writing, spirit telegraphy, 
spirit typewriting, painting, prophesy and many other medi- 
umistic phases. The daily Press, the weekly and monthly 
papers, in fact, the whole range of modern literature are tainted 
with the philosophy and science and phenomena of Spiritual- 
ism. Theosophy, (which by the way, is the Spiritualism of 
the four hundred or upper ten), Occultism, Psychic researchism, 
Mesmerism, Hypnotism, Healing, and a hundred or more of 
the other Occult "isms." Men and women of all grades of 
learning and social standing are daily being convinced of its 
Facts and its Truths. Ministers are continually leaving the 
"good old Faith" and becoming workers in the Spiritualistic 
Vineyard — Even the redoubtable Dr. Talmage has acknowl- 
edged in several sermons that the dead do come back to us and 
communicate. In his Decoration Day sermon in Washington 
City, on the 31st of May, 1896, he said: "Who says that the 
dead do not know of the flowers. I think they do. The dead 
are not dead. The body sleeps but the soul is awake and un- 
hindered. No two cities on earth are in such rapid and con- 
stant communication as earth and heaven, and the two great 
decoration days of north and south are better known in realms 
celestial than terrestrial." 



MAGNETIC HEALING AND OCCULT SCIENCE. 29 

Testimony of Distinguished Seientists to the Reality 
of Psyehieal Phenomena. 

As however, this little pamphlet will probably fall into the 
hands of many sceptics and investigators, I will present the 
following summaries of some of the leading scholars of the pres- 
ent generation: 

Sie William Crookes, F. R. S.: That a hitherto unrec- 
ognized form of Force — whether it be called psychic or a force 
is of little consequence — is involved in these phenomena — is 
not with me a matter of opinion, but of absolute knowledge." 

Professor Elliot Cowes, of the Smithsonian Institute, 
Washington, U. S.: "I have, as you know, the keenest inter- 
est in the whole range of those phenomena which are variously 
labelled Spiritualism, theosophy, telepathy, etc. I have seen 
enough besides to satisfy me of the actual verity of the most 
of the rest of them, let their explanation be what it may." 

Professors Tornebom and Edland, the Swedish Psy- 
chists.: "Only those deny the reality of spirit phenomena who 
have never examined them, but profound study alone can ex- 
plain them. We do not know where we may be led by the dis- 
covery of the cause of these, as it seems, trivial occurrences, or 
to what new spheres of Nature's kingdom they may open the 
way; but that they will bring forward important results is al- 
ready made clear to us by the revelations of natural history in 
all ages. — Aftonblad (Stockholm). 

Baron Carl du Prel, (Munich) in Nord und Sud.: 
"One thing is clear; that is, that Psychography, (i. e. spirit writ- 
ing) must be ascribed to a transcendental origin. We shall 
find: 1. That the hypothesis of prepared slates is inadmissa- 
ble, 2. The place on which the writing is found is quite in- 
accessible to the hands of the medium. In some cases the 
double slate is securely locked, leaving only room inside for the 
tiny morsel of slate pencil. 3. That the wrrting is actually 
done at the time. 4. That the medium is not writing. 5. 
The writing must be actually done with the morsel of slate or 
lead pencil. 6. The writing is done by an intelligent being, 
since the answers are exactly pertinent to the questions. 7. 
This intelligence can read write and understand the language 
of human beings, frequently such as is unknown to the medium. 
8. It strongly resembles a human being, as well as in the de- 
gree of its intelligence as in the mistakes sometimes made. 
These beings are, therefore, although invisible, of human na- 
ture or species. It is no use whatever to fight against this 



30 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SPIRITUALISM, 

proposition 9. If these beings speak, they do so in the human 
language. 10. If they are asked who they are, they answer 
that they are beings who have left this world. 11. When 
these appearances become partly visible, perhaps only their 
hands, the hands seen are of human form. 12. When these 
things become entirely visible, they show the human form and 
countenance. . . . Spiritualism must be investigated by 
science. I should look upon myself as a coward if I did not 
openly express my convictions." 

J. H. Fichte, the German Philosopher and Author.: 
"Notwithstanding my exemption from the controversies of the 
day, I feel it my duty to bear testimony to the great fact of 
Spiritualism. No one should keep silent." 

Peofessoe de Moegan, President of the Mathematical So- 
ciety of London.: "I am perfectly convinced that I have both 
seen and heard, in a manner which should make unbelief impos- 
sible, things called spiritual, which cannot be taken by a ration- 
al being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coinci- 
dence, or mistake. So far I feel the ground firm under me." 

De. Eobeet Ghambees: "I have for many years known 
that these phenomena are real, as distinguished from impos- 
tures ; and it is not of yesterday that I concluded they were cal- 
culated to explain much that has been doubtful in the past." 

Ceomwell F. F. Vaeley, F. E. S.: "Twenty-five years 
ago I was a hard-headed unbeliever. . . . Spiritual phe- 
nomena, however, suddenly and quite unexpectedly, were soon 
after developed in my own family. . . . This led me to in- 
quire and try numerous experiments in such a way as to pre- 
clude, as much as circumstances would permit, the possibility 
of trickery and self-deception. . . . That the phenomena 
occur there is overwhelming evidence, and it is too late now to 
deny their existence." 

Alfeed Kussel Wallace, F. G S.: 1. "My position, 
therefore, is that the phenomena of Spiritualism in their en- 
tirety do not require further confirmation. They are proved, 
quite as well as any facts are proved in other sciences, and it is 
not denial or quibbling that can disprove any of them, but only 
fresh facts and accurate deductions from those facts. 

2. It will not be necessary for Spiritualists to produce 
fresh confirmation of facts which are, and always have been, 
sufficiently real and indisputable to satisfy any honest and pre- 
serving inquirer." — Miracles and Modern Spiritualism. 

3. "We are justified in taking the facts of Modern Spir- 
itualism (and with them the spiritual theory is the only tenable 
one) as being fully established Its whole course and history 
proclaimed it to be neither imposture nor delusion, nor sur- 



MAGNETIC HEALING AND OCCULT SCIENCE. 31 

vival of the beliefs of savages, but a great and all-important 
truth." 

De. Lockhart Robertson can now no more doubt the physi- 
cal manifestations of so-called Spiritualism than he would any 
other fact, as, for example, the fall of the apple to the ground, 
of which his sense informed him. There was no place or 
chance for any legerdemain, or fraud in these physical mani- 
festations. 

Nassau William Senior: "No one can doubt that the 
phenomena like these (Phrenology, Mesmerism, Spiritualistic, 
etc.) deserve to observed, recorded and arranged; and whether 
we callthem by the name of mesmerism, or by any other name, 
the science which proposes to do this, is a mere question of 
nomenclature. 

Honorable A. J. Balfour, M. P., late Chief Secretary for 
Ireland, in a speech in the House of Commons, London, Eng., 
said: "It was the duty of the Government to inquire into the 
nature of the Phenomena." (And yet we have pulpit minis- 
ters so narrow-minded and uncharitable as to ridicule it, as they 
have done anything and everything likely to affect Christian 
superstition and bigotry. — G. W. W.) 

Eev. T. De Witt Talmage, in a sermon preached at 
Washington, D. C, Sept. 20th. 1896, said: 

"There is a class of phenomena which makes me think that 
the spiritual and heavenly world may after awhile make a demon- 
stration in this world which will bring all moral and spiritual 
things to a climax. Every intelligent man has noticed that 
there are strange and mysterious things which indicate to him 
that perhaps the spiritual world is not so far off as sometimes 
we conjecture, and that after awhile from the spiritual and 
heavenly world there may be a demonstration upon our world 
for its betterment. We call it magnetism, or we call it mesmer- 
ism, or we call it electricity, because we want some term to 
cover up our ignorance. I never heard an audible voice from 
the other world. I am persuaded of this, however: That the 
veil between this world and the next is getting thinner and 
thinner." 

Professor Hare, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry in the 
University of Pennsylvania: " Far from abating my confidence 
in the inference respecting the agencies of the spirits of 
deceased mortals, in the manifestations of which I have given 
an account in my work, I have, within the last nine months 
(this was written in 1859) had more striking evidence of that 
agency than those given in the work in question." 

Professor Challis, the late Plumerian Professor of Astron- 
omy at Cambridge : "I have been unable to resist the large 



32 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SPIRITUALISM. 

amount of teftimony to such facts, which has come from many 
independent sources, and from a vast number of witnesses. In 
short, the testimony has been so abundant and consentaneous, 
that the facts must be admitted.'' 1 

M. Saedou, the great French author, last year, 1897, said : 
" I have for a long time been satisfied that there is a great deal 
in Spiritualism. For forty years I have been studying the sub- 
ject. And now, after so many years' study, when I see the 
greatest scientists tn the world, among them the most renowned 
geologists, chemists and physicians of England, interesting 
themselves in the inexplicable phenomena for the simple reason 
that they have seen them, I flatter myself that I am entitled to 
be considered a forerunner of modern Spiritualism." 

Peofessoe G-kegoey, F. K. S. E. : k 'The essential question 
is this: What are the proofs of the agency of departed spirits? 
I am bound to say that the higher phenomena, recorded by so 
many truthful and honorable men appear, to me to render the 
spiritual hypothesis almost certain," 

Honoeable W. E. Gladstone, M. P., England, in a letter 
17th September, 1891, (see XIX. Century, October, 1891), 
says : "Spiritualism and Theosophy, as I understand the mat- 
ter, deal with the facts and phenomena of the other world as 
much as the Christian creeds." 

Loed Beougham : " There is but one question I would ask 
the author ; Is the Spiritualism of this work foreign to our 
materialistic, manufacturing age? No. Even in the most cloud- 
less skies of scepticism I see a rain cloud, if no bigger than a 
man's hand; it is modern Spiritualism." 

The London Dialectical Committee reported : 1. That 
sounds of a very varied character, apparently proceeding from 
articles of furniture, the floor and walls of the room (the vibra- 
tions accompanying which sounds are often distinctly percepti- 
ble to the touch) occur, without being produced by muscular 
action or muscular contrivance. 2. That movements of heavy 
bodies take place without mechanical contrivance of any kind, 
or adequate exertion of muscular force by those present, and 
frequently without contact or connection with any person. 3. 
That these sounds and movements often occur at the time and 
in the manner asked for by persons present, and, by means of a 
simple code of signals, answer questions and spell out coherent 
communications." 

Camille Flammaeion, the French Astronomer: "I do not 
hesitate to affirm my conviction, based on personal examination 
of the subject, that any scientific man who declares the phenom- 
ena denominated 'magnetic,' 'somnambulic,' 'mediamic,' and 
others not yet explained by science to be 'impossible,' is one 
who speaks without knowing what he is talking about." 

(Jg^Thousands of other Testimonials could be given if space would permit. 



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Testimony of Distinguished Scientists, Continued. 

(See also pages 29 to 32.) 



Rev. Hebek Newton lias placed himself on record thus to 
a New York World reporter : " My health has prevented a 
personal investigation of the many claims of Spiritualism, but 
I have investigated the matter very searchingly at second hand, 
through the vast literature connected with the movement, and 
I am forced to believe there is something besides fraud in the 
phenomena. Personal investigation landed Professor Cromwell 
Varley, Professor Crookes, Professor Zollner, a^d Professor 
Alfred Russell Wallace plump into the lap of Spiritualism, and 
they are now firm believers. They are all men of learning; it 
will not do for the average man to turn his nose up at these 
facts." Something besides fraud. 

William James of Harvard College says: " To bring these 
phenomena within the purview of a rational hypothesis is of 
transcendent importance." 

B. F. Underwood says: "Skepticism should not prevent 
our exploring a field which promises rich results in contribu- 
tions to knowledge of the human mind." 

Professor Oliver Lodge says: "A conviction of the 
certainty of the future existence has to me personally been 
brought home on purely scientific grounds." 

William Howitt: " Spiritualism having reached its mil- 
lions of adherents, is now beyond the influence of opposition." 

Thackeray: " It is all very well for you,, who have proba- 
bly never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; 
but had you seen what I have seen, you would hold a different 
opinion." 

Rev. Myron W. Reed, Denver's great humanitarian 
preacher, (not a D. D., but a D. H., a Doctor of Humanity), in 
a sermon Sunday, 6th February, 1898, said: "I believe in the 
continuity of life. I do not believe that life ends in any hole 
in a graveyard. Life is a xDrairie road. The longer you travel 
it the more it branches off; there is no end to it, but the ocean, 
and there are the stately ships. Of course you come round 
again to the point of departure, but still alive and you know 
more. And again the prairie and the sea. I have read what 
the best books have said on life and death. I have been very 
curious about the to-morrow of death. I was at the funeral of 
a blanket Indian. His people buried him. The father of the 
man who was dead and myself lingered at the grave. And he 
said: ' He is there,' pointing down. But he said, 'The quiver 
is there, but the arrow is shot. His ponemah (dream) has 
gone to the sky.' Perhaps some doctor of divinity on Easter 
Sunday will improve on that. How did that come to that poor 
savage? God knows how to tell His children the things they 
need to know." 



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